The Brockmann Method

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The Brockmann Method is a weekly conversation about markets, momentum and a life well invested. Wilf Brockmann, a 45-year investment veteran and author of The Future of Investing Is Here and Self-Help for Billionaires, answers a host’s questions one idea at a time: why rules beat forecasts, how to manage your emotions when markets fall, and how a full life connects to a well-run portfolio. Each episode draws on his Substack essays.

Episodes

  1. 5d ago

    The Billionaire’s Most Underrated Skill: Showing Up Every Day

    On October 20, 1980, Merrill Lynch hired a young, overconfident Wilf Brockmann. Nothing dramatic happened in the markets that day. He showed up, and he has been showing up ever since. Through a heart attack, a falling-out with management and an options-market flame-out he calls his Icarus episode, the one constant was the next morning. In this episode: why the dramatic success story leaves out the years that made it possible; what a 2023 Carnegie Mellon study found about learning and repetition; the difference between showing up and being busy, and what being busy cost Wilf before 2008; the twenty-minute daily process that replaced it; and a ten-day exercise you can start tomorrow. Read the essay in English and Spanish on Substack: All of Wilf’s essays: wilfredbrockmann.substack.com. Adapted from Chapter 11 of Self-Help for Billionaires. Learn more about Beyond ETFs Pro at beyondetfspro.com. For education only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Produced with AI-generated voices, including a clone of Wilf’s own.

  2. Oct 21

    Your Brain Is Trying to Bankrupt You

    You were born with a brain designed to keep you alive on the savannah, not to manage a portfolio. In this episode, Wilf Brockmann introduces the five “employees” in your head that no investor can fire: fear, greed, revenge, anchoring and overconfidence, and explains how each one tends to show up at exactly the wrong moment. In this episode: why maximum fear is so often maximum opportunity; the revenge trade and why “the market does not know you exist”; the $80 ghost that keeps investors in losing positions; what the research says the behaviour gap costs; and why the answer is a rules-based system rather than more courage. One meta-rule: change your rules between positions, never during them. This week’s exercise: before your next trade, ask which of the five employees is typing. Read the essay in English and Spanish on Substack: https://wilfredbrockmann.substack.com. All of Wilf’s essays: wilfredbrockmann.substack.com. Adapted from Chapter 3 of Self-Help for Billionaires. Learn more about Beyond ETFs Pro at beyondetfspro.com. For education only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Produced with AI-enerated voices, including a clone of Wilf’s own.

  3. Oct 14

    Buy High, Sell Higher

    “Buy low, sell high” is the best-known rule in investing, and Wilf Brockmann argues it is structurally backwards. In this episode he recalls hearing momentum pioneerRichard Driehaus say that more money can be made buying high and selling at even higher prices, then makes the case properly. In this episode: why a stock that is “low” is usually low for a reason; what the academic research on momentum has found since 1993; the PGA test that makes the idea feel obvious; why the “Energizer Bunny” stocks only end up in your accountif you will buy them after they have started running; and the honest caveat. Buying near highs carries real risk, which is why the exit rule is the other half of the idea. This week’s exercise: pull up your three biggest losers and ask whether you bought them because they were cheap. Read the essay in English and Spanish on Substack: https://wilfredbrockmann.substack.com/publish/posts/detail/219446647?referrer=%2Fpublish%2Fposts%2Fpublished.All of Wilf’s essays: wilfredbrockmann.substack.com. Learn more about Beyond ETFs Pro at beyondetfspro.com. For education only, not investment advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Produced with AI-generated voices, including a clone of Wilf’s own. Buying stocks near highs carries risk, including the risk thatthey fail.

  4. Oct 8

    The Turtles Proved It First

    In 1983, two Chicago traders disagreed about whether great trading is a talent you are born with or a discipline you can learn. To settle it, Richard Dennis trained 23 ordinary people (a security guard, a blackjack player, a recent graduate) for two weeks, gave them real money, and watched. They became known as the Turtles, and they reportedly earned about $175 million. In this episode, Wilf Brockmann explains: the simple rules the Turtles followed; why their system contained no forecast at all; why some Turtles failed using the very same rules; and the one exercise to do this week. Take a single impulsivedecision from last month and write the rule that would have made it for you.

  5. Oct 2

    Congratulations, You're Richer than you Think

    I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news: you are not a billionaire. The good news: you may be richer than you think, in ways your advisor's statement never shows. In this episode, Wilf Brockmann explains why most people are terrible at counting what they have, and walks through the balance sheet nobody prepares: your time, your knowledge, your relationships, and your time in the market. Along the way: why the human brain never got the memo that the woolly mammoth is gone, the 730 hours a year an investor can lose to financial news, and the billionaire's real advantage, which is not capital but a calm relationship with it. Your task for tonight: take ten minutes, a pen and no screen, and count what you actually have. Read the essay in English and Spanish on Substack: https://wilfredbrockmann.substack.com. Learn more about Beyond ETFs Pro at beyondetfspro.com. For education only, not investment advice. Past results never guarantee future results. Produced with AI-generated voices, including a clone of Wilf's own.

  6. Oct 2

    The Three Mentors I Never Met

    A trader, an economist and a physicist walk into a portfolio. In this episode, Wilf Brockmann explains the three sentences, from three men he never met, that his entire investment method rests on. In this episode: why "buy low, sell high" is backwards and Jesse Livermore's rule is "buy high, sell higher"; why a stock deserves no emotional loyalty; the famous line credited to Keynes about changing your mind when the facts change (Wilf explains why scholars doubt he said it, and why the idea still matters); how Long-Term Capital Management, run by two Nobel laureates, failed because it didn't change its mind; and a line attributed to Einstein about looking at what is, not what you wish it were. You'll also get one practical task for this week: write your exit on paper before your next purchase. Read the essay in English and Spanish on Substack: https://wilfredbrockmann.substack.com/. Learn more about Beyond ETFs Pro at beyondetfspro.com. For education only, not investment advice. Produced with AI-generated voices, including a clone of Wilf's own.

  7. Oct 2

    Your Calendar Is Full. Your Soul Is Not.

    The alarm goes off at 5:15, and the day has already started without you. In this first episode, Wilf Brockmannexplains why successful people measure return on capital obsessively and almost never measure return on time, and why a day that is used is not the same as a day that is lived. In this episode: Charles Darwin’swarning about wasted hours; why the full calendar is a comfort problem, not a time-management problem; the investor habit of checking the screen seventeentimes on a bad day; and one practical instruction. Put something with no output on your calendar, and protect it like a board meeting. Read the essay in English and Spanish on Substack: https://wilfredbrockmann.substack.com/ Learn more about Beyond ETFs Pro at beyondetfspro.com. For education only, not investment advice. Produced with AI-generated voices, including a clone of Wilf’s own.

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The Brockmann Method is a weekly conversation about markets, momentum and a life well invested. Wilf Brockmann, a 45-year investment veteran and author of The Future of Investing Is Here and Self-Help for Billionaires, answers a host’s questions one idea at a time: why rules beat forecasts, how to manage your emotions when markets fall, and how a full life connects to a well-run portfolio. Each episode draws on his Substack essays.

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